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n that tip proved to be accurate, Cherkashin got the resources he needed from the KGB to develop this source. From the start of his work for the KGB, Hanssen laid down his own rules. The KGB would deliver cash from which all the fingerprints were removed to locations, or “dead drops,” he specified. He woul
ael to recruit Jerry Alfred Whitworth, who served as a communications officer with a top secret clearance for the navy. Like many other KGB recruits, Whitworth came from a broken family, dropped out of high school, took technical courses, and got a job as a communications officer. He was not disposed to work
ght. Similarly, Aldrich Ames, acted as a KGB mole in the CIA for more than ten years, and passed all the CIA’s sophisticated lie detector tests. Both Hanssen and Ames eluded intensive FBI and CIA investigations that lasted over a decade. According to Victor Cherkashin, their KGB case officer, who I intervi
el, to recruit Jerry Alfred Whitworth, who served as a communications officer with a top secret clearance for the Navy. Like many other KGB recruits, Whitworth came from a broken family, dropped out of a high school, took technical courses and got a job asa communications officer. He was not disposed to work
Vienna for a follow-up debriefing to see if he could recall any further details. Finally, in 1985, Pelton was arrested by the FBI and, like Ames and Hanssen, sentenced to life imprisonment. Looking at his watch, Cherkashin politely excused himself, saying he had work to do. On parting, I signed a copy of
s, Appendix A “All their classified information...”—Anonymous, “Out of Control,” NSA. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB424/docs/Cyber-009.pdf “Whitworth came from a...”-- See Jerry Whitworth, Appendix A “All of us just...”-- Gerald Baker, “Michael Hayden Says U.S. Is Easy Prey for Hackers,” Wall Stre
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